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“Lucky Man” by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

From the album Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)

“Lucky Man” by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer appears on 32 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1997 and 2026. It was first released in 1970 on the album Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Its best result is #56 on the WZLX Memorial 500 (1997). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,869 indie & aaa song of all time.

32countdowns
13stations
#56best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1997–2026years charted

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"Lucky Man" was the first song Greg Lake ever wrote, knocked together at 12 on a guitar his mother bought him with the handful of chords he knew, and it only landed on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's 1970 debut album because the new trio needed one more track. Lake had even rehearsed it with King Crimson in early 1968, and his bandmates didn't much like it.

They made it work anyway, improvising the arrangement: Lake's acoustic guitar, bass and choirboy vocal carry a gentle folk tune, Carl Palmer rolls underneath, and then Keith Emerson's Moog comes screaming in with one of the earliest synthesizer solos on a rock record. Lake produced it and Eddy Offord engineered. The single went top 20 in the Netherlands, charted in the US and Canada, and charted there again on its 1973 reissue.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Indie & Adult Alternative

Classic Rock

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1997 56 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (1997) 499
1997 375 104.5 KZEP KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) 500
2002 261 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (2002) 500
2007 661 WTMD WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time 897
2011 78 97.9 The Loop The Loop Rock N Roll 500 (2011) 500
2011 296 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) 1100
2012 298 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) 1200
2012 744 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2013 895 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) 1000
2013 427 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) 500
2014 536 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2014 933 Big 100 BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) 1000
2014 779 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) 885
2015 273 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015) 500
2015 904 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2016 524 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2016 439 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) 500
2017 464 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) 500
2018 493 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) 500
2020 744 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2021 649 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) 1043
2021 450 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2021) 500
2022 573 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) 1043
2022 814 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2022 353 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2022) 500
2023 386 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) 1043
2023 736 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2024 342 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043
2024 467 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2024) 500
2025 498 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) 1043
2025 480 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2025) 500
2026 457 KSHE 95 KSHE 95 U-Man 500 (2026) 499

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